Autumn
by Theodora Goss
The leaves are falling and falling,
and you are gone.
I lie alone while the sky fills up with darkness
like a cup. Moonlight spills on the white pillow
where you used to lie.
An owl calls from the forest
in which we walked together until the path
was printed with our footsteps, faded now,
and leaves are falling like pieces
of the night.
(The image is Owl on Maple Branch with Full Moon by Utagawa Hiroshige.)
